tabes
Example Sentences
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Lucan seems to have described this serpent in the following lines: Hic, quæ prima caput movit de pulvere tabes Aspida somniferum tumida cervice levârit.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
More rarely it appears as tabes mesenterica in infants, tubercular peritonitis, and tubercular disease of the internal organs.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
We cannot cure the tabes of the spinal cord.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The work of Flexner and Noguchi on paresis and tabes dorsalis show that always in such afflictions the tissues of the central nervous system have been invaded by the parasite.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
It may result also from the pressure of an abscess or an aneurysm either inside the pelvis or in the buttock, and is sometimes associated with disease of the spinal medulla, such as tabes.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
